Developer Poncle has made a name for itself in the four years since Vampire Survivors launched in 2022. Releasing for budget pricing and offering a frankly ridiculous amount of value per dollar, Vampire Survivors became an overnight sensation for reasons that are maybe a bit hard to put into words….
The third and final installment in the Earthbound series, Mother 3, is 20 years old today. Launching on the Game Boy Advance on April 20th, 2006, the quirky RPG sequel still has not seen an official release outside of Japan, despite decades of Western fans begging Nintendo to localize it….
Every so often with Nintendo releases, there is seemingly little downtime between announcement and release. We saw this with Metroid Prime Remastered, which shadow dropped during a Nintendo Direct, but we’ve also seen it with a number of smaller scale games that wind up hitting shelves three or four months…
Developer Poncle has made a name for itself in the four years since Vampire Survivors launched in 2022. Releasing for budget pricing and offering a frankly ridiculous amount of value per dollar, Vampire Survivors became an overnight sensation for reasons that are maybe a bit hard to put into words….
Disclaimer: This review discusses the Steam version of Mouse: P.I. For Hire, meaning the performance only covers that specific platform’s performance. Once we’ve received the Switch 2 version, the review will be updated to detail Nintendo’s system performance. As of this time of writing, the Nintendo Switch 2 version is…
When it was first revealed in 2020, I don’t think anyone knew what to make of Pragmata. More than likely I offhandedly called it “that space game” and moved on. It wasn’t until about a year ago, when someone mentioned it in passing, that I even remembered it existed. Next…
Super Meat Boy 3D’s title takes me back to the ’90s when modernizing the platformer genre meant making it 3D instead of 2D. It’s not just the title that takes me back though. The game’s concept revolves around you, a tiny block of meat with arms & legs, navigating gigantic…
I’ve heard Pokopia described a lot of ways since its reveal. Pokémon’s answer to Animal Crossing, for one. A baffling use of the maligned Game Key Card for another. Yet after a month of near-daily play with the game, I think it might be this post-launch praise that feels most…
One of my fondest gaming memories of the last couple of years was playing through Kena: Bridge of Spirits with my wife when it launched on PlayStation 5 back in the fall of 2021. It’s a gorgeous game that we both fell in love with, but I found myself often…
As a fan of old point-and-click adventure titles, it often feels as if designers have completely moved on from that interconnected puzzle box style of game making. There’s still Cyan Worlds making Myst-like adventures, not to mention remaking Myst a hundred times, but I can count the number of similar…
My first real foray into Monster Hunter was back in 2017 with Monster Hunter Stories. I had been gifted a copy of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate by a family member who wanted to get me hooked on the series, but I bounced off of it pretty quickly, despite my interest…
Referencing video games is kind of the Scott Pilgrim series’ MO at this point. See: All of Ramona’s evil exes exploding into coins once Scott lands the final blow on each of them in the movie. The 2010 video game based off the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World movie took…
During the dark days of Nintendo’s history when the Wii U was the new, room temperature thing, Capcom was a strong supporter of Nintendo’s ill-fated tablet-based platform. In addition to an exclusive port of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, the company released things like Ducktales Remastered and Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles…
I’ll admit it: Resident Evil Requiem’s marketing had me worried. When Leon’s reveal showed him swinging a hatchet, roundhouse kicking enemies, and plunging a chainsaw into a zombie’s torso, it heavily clashed with the creeping horror tone that had been established until that point. The last time Capcom tried to…
Ubisoft’s Rayman has always been a victim of circumstance that succeeded against all odds. There’s no better example of this than the initial reaction of launching Sony’s PlayStation, a console renowned for bringing in the 3D polygon era of gaming, with Rayman, a 32-bit 2D platformer. Even amidst skepticism, Rayman…
